Altera Drives Automotive Electronics Market

Posted by Ken Cheung in FPGA on Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) will begin shipping automotive-grade devices for selected members of its CPLD, FPGA and structured ASIC device families. Selected members of Altera's product families are designated automotive grade, including the MAX®7000AE and MAX II CPLDs, Cyclone®, Cyclone II and Cyclone III FPGAs and HardCopy® II structured ASICs. Altera's low-cost Cyclone III FPGAs are the industry's only automotive-grade FPGAs at the 65nm node and its HardCopy II structured ASICs are the industry's only automotive-grade structured ASICs.

Altera's automotive-grade devices are ISO/TS16949 compliant, meeting ISO 9001:2000, automotive and customer-specific requirements. All of Altera's manufacturing partners are TS16949 certified and registered, which includes wafer fabrication locations (TSMC) and packaging and test partners (ASE and AMKOR). Altera's automotive-grade products are tested according to AEC-Q100 specifications, support the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) and have an operating junction temperature range from -40°C to +125°C.

The foundation of Altera's automotive strategy is the PARIS development platform, the automotive industry's only fully scalable development platform. The FPGA-based PARIS platform is designed to enable the easy integration of pre-approved intellectual property (IP) from Altera and partners and facilitate the fast and efficient development of automotive electronics applications. The PARIS platform allows automotive OEMs to port their designs into a production-qualified FPGA or migrate to a low-cost, high-performance HardCopy II structured ASIC. Available IP cores include Altera's Nios® II and ARM's M1 Cortex embedded processors, as well as digital signal processing (DSP) and video and imaging IP suites, and support for the latest automotive networking standards such as CAN, MOST, LIN, and FlexRay.

More info: Altera Automotive-Grade Products | PARIS Development Platform

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